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TCT 2016: Stents, stents, stents on Day 1
The annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference is under way in Washington, D.C., with late-breaking study results beginning yesterday. We’ll update this post throughout the day as new results come in, so be sure to check back for the latest news out of TCT 2016. Stents took center stage Day1, with a raft of studies covering the latest on the bioresorbable front. Stents equivalent to CABG Drug-eluting stents are as effect as coronary artery bypass grafts in treating patients with blocked left main coronary arteries, according to a study that compared Abbott‘s (NYSE:ABT) Xience DES with CABG i...
Source: Mass Device - October 31, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiovascular Stents TCT 2016 Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium (TCT) Source Type: news

Edwards Lifesciences touts intermediate-risk data for Sapien devices | ACC 2016
Data from a large trial of the Sapien line of replacement heart valves made by Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW) are slated to be used to back bids for expanded indications in intermediate-risk patients. Presented over the weekend at the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting in Chicago, results from the Partner II trial involving the Sapien XT and Sapien 3 transcatheter aortic valve replacements compared the TAVR treatments with traditional open surgery in the intermediate-risk cohort (both of the Edwards valves are already approved in the U.S. for high-risk patients). Sapien XT non-inferior to surgery at 2...
Source: Mass Device - April 4, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Replacement Heart Valves American College of Cardiology Conference (ACC) Edwards Lifesciences Source Type: news

TCT 2015: Thrombectomy no benefit in Medtronic’s Export studies
Thrombus aspiration in heart attack patients showed no benefit and raised the risk of stroke, according to a pair of studies of percutaneous coronary interventions using Medtronic‘s (NYSE:MDT) Export aspiration catheter, presented today at the annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapies conference in San Francisco. Early thrombectomy’s promise Totaled? The 10,064-patient Total study compared PCI alone and PCI with thrombectomy in ST-elevated myocardial infarctions within 12 hours of onset. The primary endpoint (a composite of cardiovascular death, recurrent myocardial infarction, cardiogenic shock, or class...
Source: Mass Device - October 13, 2015 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Brad Perriello Tags: Cardiovascular Clinical Trials Medtronic TCT 2015 Source Type: news